Faculty Stories & Voices

Collectively, MS&E faculty have deep expertise in two major disciplines: quantitative modeling and the behavioral sciences. Read more about their careers and research below.

Professor

Kathleen Eisenhardt

A pioneering female faculty member, Prof. Eisenhardt eschewed conventional number-crunching to show how in-depth case studies best reveal the improv culture of high-growth companies.

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Professor

Yinyu Ye

An aptitude for athletics helped transform Prof. Ye from a rice farmer during China’s Cultural Revolution into a world-renowned scholar.

Professor

Elisabeth Paté-Cornell

"Risk analysis was perfect for me because it could truly be applied to anything I wanted."

Professor

Ron Howard

"My fundamental goal is to learn and to share that learning."

Assistant Professor

Markus Pelger

"I think risk management is relevant for everyone—the better you manage risks, the better your decisions are."

Assistant Professor

Itai Ashlagi

"I can't think of a better intellectual environment for my research than MS&E, where the faculty and students share a common goal of designing systems and policies that impact our lives."

Professor (Teaching)

Robert McGinn

Prof. McGinn specializes in the field of ethics in engineering, and recently released his book, The Ethical Engineer: Contemporary Concepts and Cases.

Professor

Bob Sutton

“I was always fascinated by how differently people behaved in different organizations—even when they did more or less the same work.”

Assistant Professor

Melissa Valentine

“In our work so far, it’s been amazing to watch how quickly a group of people from around the world come together to complete complex projects.”

Assistant Professor

Sharad Goel

“I want to go beyond understanding how systems function; I want to act on those insights to design better systems. To me, that’s what engineering is all about.”

Associate Professor

Jose Blanchet

"I started to re-adjust and research things that I thought would be exciting and appropriate for the Stanford environment and the valley. This is for me, in many ways, like being born again in terms of the types of research that I’m pursuing."